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Leap onto land saves fish from being eaten

University of New South Wales, March 14, 2017

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170314111116.htm

 

"Fish on the South Pacific island of Rarotonga have

evolved the ability to survive out of water and leap

about on the rocky shoreline..."

 

The paper is:

 

Ord, T.J., Summers, T.C., Noble, M.M. and Fulton, C.J.,

2017. Ecological Release from Aquatic Predation Is

Associated with the Emergence of Marine Blenny

Fishes onto Land. The American Naturalist, 189(5), pp.000-000.

Abstract: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/691155

PDF file: http://www.eerc.unsw.edu.au/ord/ord_etal2017.pdf

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.

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